Cultural Omnivore No. 11

A Listing of What We Love

“As a photographer, film director, composer, and writer, Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a multi-disciplinary artist whose art and advocacy for social justice still resonates in contemporary culture. In collaboration with the Gordon Parks Foundation, this second half of a two-part exhibition will focus on some of Parks’ most celebrated and iconic imagery; demonstrating his abilities as a photographer and journalist who moved just as seamlessly documenting everyday life and injustice facing African American families across the country, framing his subjects with compassion amidst unvarnished reality.” Through MARCH 24, 2018, Jack Shainman Gallery, 524 W 24th Street, NYC

“The Andy Warhol Diaries is a posthumous work by the American artist Andy Warhol and was edited by his frequent collaborator and long-time friend, Pat Hackett. The book begins on November 24, 1976 and ends eleven years later on February 17, 1987, just five days before his death.” – Wikipedia

Opening Paragraph:
”It is extremely important to Sophie Calle that she is able to disappear at a moment’s notice. That tomorrow she could lock the door behind her and become somebody else, somebody other than an artist whose 38-year career has involved documenting and exhibiting the most intimate details of her life. Calle’s father (the man she says she became an artist for, as a metaphorical seduction) died two years ago; her mother (whose deathbed she filmed, showing her final breaths at the Venice Biennale) in 2006. Last year her cat died – she is making an album about him. “My last dependent. Which means that now I could leave in one hour, forever. And maybe one day, I’ll use that.”“